Friday, February 06, 2015

Once upon a time I used to keep and label the boys' teeth, after exchanging them for money in their slipper at night. However, one day the boys stumbled onto the apparently-not-so-secret location of their milky-whites and realized the tooth fairy was all a hoax. That story aside, I still had their teeth neatly labelled with the intention of one day reassembling them for fun. That day came! Waitangi Day proved to be a chilly indoors sort of day, the kind where children are inclined to easily bore if left to themselves. Out came the packet of teeth (we discovered that I hadn't been as diligent as I thought and they only had about six teeth each, but it was enough) and out came the polymer clay. I presented a few ideas to the boys and their creativity took its cue and got busy.

Aaron made these two adorable monsters (I helped a bit, but the ideas were his entirely);

Caleb produced this cute thingie...

...and this less cute snake using an inverted tooth - those are the roots sticking out!!